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West Virginia workers launch “insurrection” in state capital

March 10, 2015 By John Case

Demonstrators protesting the national wave of wage and safety cuts and anti-union assaults, were led by the West Virginia AFL-CIO and joined by national labor leaders.

Opposition to repressive Canadian legislation grows

February 26, 2015 By Tim Pelzer

"The NDP has identified several serious problems in C-51, including that the bill will give broad new powers to CSIS without enhancing oversight."

GOP House panel OK’s partisan rewrite of education law

February 20, 2015 By PAI

"In reality, it would rob poor and struggling students of the resources, supports, and funding they need to succeed."

Today in labor history: The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

February 5, 2015 By Special to People’s World

The FMLA was intended "to balance the demands of the workplace with the needs of families."

Buried in the back garden: families priced out of decent burials

December 10, 2014 By Luke James

UK families have been forced to bury loved ones in their back gardens amid an upsurge in "paupers' funerals" caused by rising costs and grant cuts.